[awergh]

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They sure don't give students admin rights at my school!

i had admin rights in high school

anyway umm when im using xp i tend to lock, when using 98se i cant be bothered to set a user password so i dont have any point in locking

[Polarman]

I don't lock mine. I don't need too.

If my pc was password protected, my wife would find that suspicious and would probably imagine all kinds of stupid things. Since i have nothing to hide, she can poke all she wants. She as her own pc and i know when she pokes around on mine when i'm not there.

[Vishal Gupta]

^^ lol.

[Lost Soul]

i dont really need to but some times i will when there are nosey visitors around, its better to be safe then sorry, id rather not lose any of my data due to being to trusting in everybody

[Tripredacus]

I do lock it because some people at work have been known to try doing stuff with it. Not at home though. It never goes to sleep.

[A.T.M]

I have to at work its a security thing.

[Taggs]

I always lock my computer at work as I have high level rights and I dont want to leave it so people could come and sit at my PC and elevate their rights or "misuse" the system using my account.

At home I don't bother locking my PC as I very rarely leave it long enough for my wife to find my "educational" films ;-) (which are well hidden) plus my wife has her own PC so has no need to use mine

[clidx]

i don't lock my home computer, but whenever i go to print something at school etc, i always lock before i leave. so many people trying to change passwords...

[arctirus]

At home no, my wife would have a hissy fit.

At work yes, I'm a domain admin so every time I leave my desk. I keep a shortcut to "Lock Workstation" in my quicklaunch.

%windir%\System32\rundll32.exe user32.dll,LockWorkStation

[Messerschmitt]

At home, no, cause im pretty much the only one who knows to use a computer.

At work? Well, I don't have any computers at work. My office is in the skies.

[Panarchy]

arctirus, on Nov 28 2007, 08:52 AM, said:

At home no, my wife would have a hissy fit.

At work yes, I'm a domain admin so every time I leave my desk. I keep a shortcut to "Lock Workstation" in my quicklaunch.

%windir%\System32\rundll32.exe user32.dll,LockWorkStation

It would be much quicker to just use startkey + L

(startkey + E is explorer & startkey + R is run)

Panarchy

[Idontwantspam]

Panarchy, on Nov 28 2007, 05:41 PM, said:

arctirus, on Nov 28 2007, 08:52 AM, said:

At home no, my wife would have a hissy fit.

At work yes, I'm a domain admin so every time I leave my desk. I keep a shortcut to "Lock Workstation" in my quicklaunch.

%windir%\System32\rundll32.exe user32.dll,LockWorkStation

It would be much quicker to just use startkey + L

(startkey + E is explorer & startkey + R is run)

Panarchy

If you have a Microsoft keyboard, it's quicker yet to use IntelliType to remap a button to lock the computer. For example, my keyboard has a log off button. I don't log off very frequently, so I just set it to lock the workstation.

Win+L is good if you don't have that option. In windows 2000, that doesn't exist, so I recommend making a shortcut as mentioned above and setting it's keyboard shortcut to be Ctrl+Alt+L and then placing it on the desktop. It's only one key more than Win+L, but less work than Ctrl+Alt+Del.

[Maleko]

Idontwantspam, on Nov 29 2007, 03:42 AM, said:

Panarchy, on Nov 28 2007, 05:41 PM, said:

arctirus, on Nov 28 2007, 08:52 AM, said:

At home no, my wife would have a hissy fit.

At work yes, I'm a domain admin so every time I leave my desk. I keep a shortcut to "Lock Workstation" in my quicklaunch.

%windir%\System32\rundll32.exe user32.dll,LockWorkStation

It would be much quicker to just use startkey + L

(startkey + E is explorer & startkey + R is run)

Panarchy

If you have a Microsoft keyboard, it's quicker yet to use IntelliType to remap a button to lock the computer. For example, my keyboard has a log off button. I don't log off very frequently, so I just set it to lock the workstation.

Win+L is good if you don't have that option. In windows 2000, that doesn't exist, so I recommend making a shortcut as mentioned above and setting it's keyboard shortcut to be Ctrl+Alt+L and then placing it on the desktop. It's only one key more than Win+L, but less work than Ctrl+Alt+Del.

Get a macro keyboard and assign the keybind to a single key

[arctirus]

Maleko, on Nov 29 2007, 09:21 AM, said:

Get a macro keyboard and assign the keybind to a single key

Webcam with software that senses when you walk away from your desk.

[Idontwantspam]

Someone actually makes some sort of bluetooth device that as soon as the receiver looses the singal from the transmitter, it locks the computer.

I don't remember the site.

[cluberti]

I've actually just got a fob for work that I wear around my neck with my badge, and a USB key on the back that it "talks" to - when I walk more than 10 feet away, it locks automagically (it could unlock it for me too, but I don't want it doing that - I've no idea where it stores the password, and for sure it would be somewhere right in RAM or in a heap somewhere that's easily read).

[Panarchy]

On the old Win2000 computer, you could probably create the shortcut for lock using some 3rd party software...

[kernelcored]

yes. i don't want others to look into my d: e: f: g: h: and i: drives

[nitroshift]

Winkey + L by habit, although at home is redundant as I'm the only user... At work I don't force users to lock their machines, they do what I do, just like monkeys ) so they lock theirs too. As for the screensaver, I don't have one and even if I did I wouldn't use its password protection as I lock the pc long before it would kick in.

This post has been edited by nitroshift: 30 November 2007 - 02:36 AM

[Devil_666]

at work im more of a vert quick control alt and delete and enter person!

Im like a machine! Do it even if i walk to the printer ha!